Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 18

“Tell the people that I give a feast and dance this day for the naming of my daughter's little son,” bade the chieftain.

Who acts: you, infant · What happens: tell, give, dance, name · To what, where: bade, people, little son · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iya, the Camp-eater. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, infant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 people	det
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Tell	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 give	obj
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 give	nsubj
7	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 people	acl:relcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 feast	det
9	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 dance	cc
11	dance	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 give	conj
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obl:unmarked
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 naming	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 naming	det
16	naming	naming	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	22 son	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 daughter	nmod:poss
19	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 son	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 daughter	case
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 son	amod
22	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 naming	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
25	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Tell	obj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 chieftain	det
27	chieftain	chieftain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Tell	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	imperative	you not said here	bade	the people			tree rules
2	give in a quote	present	infant	the people		day	for the naming of my daughter's little son	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent that=Recipient feast=Theme for naming=Asset
3	dance in a quote	present	infant not said here					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	name in a quote			my daughter's little son				nom naming «communication transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Project Gutenberg book 338 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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